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Bacteria decipher mysterious human body
Great ideas come in small shape. In the case of Shewanella bacteria, they are micro-packed. But this microscopic bacterium can hold the key to producing alternative ener…
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Insects evolved a completely different tactic to sniff
In the work published in the April 13 online edition of Nature, researchers at Rockefeller University and Tokyo University revealed that insects have adopted a fundament…
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Is nano bacteria a living organism?
Tiny molecules called nanobacteria have confounded scientists in many ways since people discovered it 20 years ago, but the most controversial question it poses is wheth…
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Store DNA from plants around the world
New York Botanical Garden may be best known for its blooming flowers, but garden researchers are working hard to capture DNA from thousands of plants around the world.
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Bacteria by antibiotics
Antibiotics work to kill bacteria, not to nourish them. But scientists at Harvard have discovered hundreds of bacteria in the soil that can take advantage of drugs as th…
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We can create cars, so why can't we make cells?
Let's assume that you don't know anything about cars, so you want to know how they work. By chance you have a friend who is a car repairman so you ask him to explain the…
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Starting a science
6.45 am on December 21, everyone at the molecular biotechnology laboratory (Department of Biology, Ho Chi Minh City University of Natural Sciences) bursts out of happine…
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Ants also know how to build bridges
Some ants in tropical forests in Latin America have 'engineering units' that work very effectively. To facilitate the worker ants transporting food to the nest, ants Eci…
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Stem cell: The hard copy
Doing science means working with rules. Repetition is a peculiarity of doing science. However, not everyone has never tasted the feeling of having
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Australia: 2-week underwater survival test
Yesterday, a 29-year-old Australian biochemist and scuba diver, Lloyd Godson, began an unusual project to prove his ability to endure by living underwater for 2 weeks. H…
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Restore precious genes from wild wheat
US and Israeli scientists have cloned a wild wheat gene called GPC-B1, which is thought to work to increase protein, iron and zinc in grains.
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Successfully made a new adhesive.
Small mushroom-shaped hairs are the secret of a new adhesive, a sticky substance developed by scientists at the Max Planck Metal Research Institute, (Stuttgart, Germany)…
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Decode the smallest bacterial genome
The race to find the smallest biological genome has suddenly entered a new phase. The new work [1] published the ~ 422-kb genome of aphid bacterium, Buchnera aphidicola.…
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Art work from ... bacteria
Alexander Fleming's paintings are placed in a nutritious and vibrant color environment - yellow is Staphylococcus, blue is Bacillus violaceus and red is red.
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Decoding the whole gene, will people be immortal?
On May 17, 2006, the Nature journal (a No. 1 scientific journal in the world) published an important article: After 10 years of work, an international scientific group c…